Archived scanned copy of the original document: Resolution of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine “On the Ratification of the Agreement on the Establishment of the Commonwealth of Independent States”

The request was submitted to the Central State Archive of Supreme Bodies of Power and Government of Ukraine (CSAVO) in order to obtain archival scan copies of the original document: the Resolution of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine dated December 10, 1991, No. 1955-XII “On the Ratification of the Agreement on the Establishment of the Commonwealth of Independent States,” as well as to clarify whether the document indeed contains the signatures of the leaders of the former Soviet republics.

In its response, the archive confirmed that the specified act is stored in the collection of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, fund No. 1, inventory No. 16, file No. 5761, pages 4–13.

Scanned copies of the pages were provided in the form of an archival document and include:

– the full text of the Resolution of December 10, 1991, No. 1955-XII;

– the complete text of the Minsk Agreement dated December 8, 1991.

In the accompanying letter, it is explicitly stated that the attached agreement text indeed contains the signatures of the President of Ukraine, the President of the Russian Federation (RSFSR), and the President of the Republic of Belarus.

Thus, the archive officially confirmed that Ukraine formally ratified the Minsk Agreement, signed by the three republics’ leaders, and that this document is preserved in the state archive as an original and legally registered record.